ApocaDocs: The Ohio Valley's toxic kids

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Posted Sun Feb 7 2010: from NUVO Newsweekly:


	The Ohio Valley's toxic kids http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1265557032 Robert Owen would rise up from his grave in righteous indignation if he knew what has happened to the kids in his adopted Indiana home of New Harmony. The 19th-century visionary established a utopian settlement there in 1825, to establish “a model community where education and social equality would flourish,” as the University of Southern Indiana’s Historic New Harmony Web page puts it. But the type of education that has blossomed on the banks of the Wabash can’t possibly be what Owen envisioned. At a disturbingly high rate, students categorized as needing special education services are directly downwind of mercury-emitting, major power plants that have gone essentially uncontrolled for decades.

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'Doc Michael says:

Now it's more like a pew-topian settlement.